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Joy N. Hulme describes herself as “a grandma with the heart of a child.” She was born and reared in Cottonwood, Utah, a rural area at the foot of Mount Olympus south of Salt Lake City. She was rich in all the things a child needs: loving parents, siblings and cousins to play with, woods to wander in, Grandpa’s next-door farm fields to explore, orchard trees to climb for fresh-fruit snacks, rocks and logs to build with, adobe bricks to melt for sculpting clay, a huge lawn for tumbling, and.a wonderful oversize dad-built backyard playground with a swing, slide, glider, sand box and playhouse. She says: “No life is long enough to run out of fresh surprises if we watch for them. I like to be accurate about facts, fanciful about fiction and to combine truth and imagination. It is always my goal to encourage the creative awareness that is inborn in youngsters and to keep it alive in them forever. I want to make learning as much fun for others as it has always been for me by creating in a light-hearted manner. It is my aim that a child of any age can become a little better in some way as a result of reading what I have written.”. Join us as we celebrate her newest book, Easter Babies: A Springtime Counting Book.